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LIFE IN THE WIRES THE CTHEORY READER LIFE IN THE WIRES THE CTHEORY READER edited and with introductions by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker New World Perspectives CTheory Books Victoria Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader (c) 2004, New World Perspectives / CTheory Books The writers contributing to Life in the Wires: The CTheory Reader retain copyright on their individual works presented in this collection. The collection as a whole is copyright New World Perpsective / CTheory Books. Works of art copyright by the artists. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles or reviews. For information, contact <[email protected]>. ___________________________________________________________________________ First published in Canada in 2004 Electronic version re-designed 2016 Printed in Canada ISBN 0-920393-21-7 ___________________________________________________________________________ Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Life in the wires : The CTheory reader / edited and with introductions by Arthur and Marilouise Kroker. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-920393-21-7 1. Internet – Social aspects. 2. World Wide Web – Social aspects. 3. Information technology – Social aspects. 4. Globalization–Forecasting. 5. Digital media. 6. Information society. I. Kroker, Arthur, 1945- II. Kroker, Marilouise. T14.5T44 2004 303.48’34 C2004-903182-1 CONTENTS LIFE IN THE WIRES 9 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker SCREENS IN THE WIRES 18 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 1. Crossing into the Twisted World 20 James Conlon 2. Material Memories 27 Paul D. Miller (Dj Spooky) 3. Speed Ramping 34 David Cox 4. Making the World Safe for Fashionable Philosophy! 40 Joe Milutis 5. I WAS SEDUCED BY 48 ROBOTS IN A METALLIC ARENA 49 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker MUSIC IN THE WIRES 56 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 6. Black Secret Technology 61 Julian Jonker 7. The Turntable 70 Charles Mudede 8. Cardboard Resistance 79 Phillip Vannini 9. Full With Noise 86 Paul Hegarty 10. Go With the Flow 99 Bo Vibe LIFE IN THE WIRES: A CTHEORY READER 7 POLITICS IN THE WIRES 105 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 11. Unmanned 109 Jordan Crandall 12. Priming the Pump of War 116 Dion Dennis 13. CTHEORY Interview With Paul Virilio 126 Paulo Virilio in conversation with John Armitage Translated by Patrice Riemens 14. 1000 Years of War 135 Manuel De Landa in conversation with: Don Ihde, Casper Bruun Jensen, Jari Friis Jorgensen, Srikanth Mallavarapu, Eduardo Mendieta, John Mix, John Protevi, and Evan Selinger. 15. DANGEROUS Philosophy 154 Irving Goh 16. Networks, Swarms and Multitudes 164 Eugene Thacker GENDER IN THE WIRES 178 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 17. The Cyborg Mother 182 Jaimie Smith-Windsor 18. When Bad Girls Do French Theory 190 Joan Hawkins 19. Metal Gender 205 Steve Dixon 20. SCREAMING EAGLE 214 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 21. Kathy Acker in Life and Death 217 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 8 LIFE IN THE WIRES: A CTHEORY READER CITIES IN THE WIRES 220 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 22. Chimurenga: Cape Town Now! 224 Trebor Scholz 23. Circuits, Death And Sacred Fiction 228 Mahesh Senagala 24. Designing the Solipsistic City 232 Samuel Nunn NET IN THE WIRES 243 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 25. The Rush to Judgment 246 Peter Lurie 26. Flash Fetish 254 Nate Burgos 27. Spatial Discursions 257 Robert Nirre 28. Why the Web Will Win the Culture Wars for the Left 267 Peter Lurie 29. Speaking in Djinni 275 D. Fox Harrell 30. The Ambiguous Panopticon 283 Mark Winokur 31. Technical Machines and Evolution 306 Belinda Barnet POSTHUMANISM IN THE WIRES 326 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 32. The Post-Cyborg Path to Deconism 331 Steve Mann 33. Lifestyles of the Cloned and (In)Famous 337 Jason Lubyk LIFE IN THE WIRES: A CTHEORY READER 9 34. Professor DVD 340 Nicholas Rombes 35. What is Cool? 345 Jeff Rice 36. Beyond Postmodernism? 351 John Armitage 37. Hyper-Heidegger 366 Arthur Kroker 38. Myron Krueger Live 374 Myron Krueger in conversation with Jeremy Turner ART IN THE WIRES 381 Arthur and Marilouise Kroker 39. Loving the Ghost in the Machine 384 Janne Vanhanen 40. Koshun’s Knob 393 Lesego Rampolokeng 41. Motion Perception in Movies and Painting 396 Michael Betancourt 42. NET BAROQUE 403 Christina McPhee 43. Digitality: Approximate Aesthetics 407 Anna Munster 44. Hallucinations of Invisibility 422 Ted Hiebert 45. Distraction And Digital Culture 434 William Bogard Contributors 453 Acknowledgements 459 Index 460 LIFE IN THE WIRES Arthur and Marilouise Kroker The Future(s) of Technoculture Life in the Wires explores the future(s) of technoculture. In the 21st century we both inhabit and are, in turn, inhabited by the electronic world as our primal identity. While we may sometimes wish to disconnect from technology, the world of electronic communication definitely appears to be unwilling to disconnect from us. In linking our fate to the story of technology, we may have, quite intentionally, overlooked the fact that technology has already put its electronic hooks into us. Cell phones provide instantaneous networking for increasingly nomadic bodies. Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) mean that we can always be on-line, both in work and life, in the world of digital communication. The dazzling visual impact of special-effects cinema silently upgrades the speed of human perception to the speed of light. Computer games speed our reflexes and reconfigure our brains. The remix music of hip-hop, electronic samplers, and freestyle DJs is how the sounds of technology circulate within the deep- est recesses of our imaginations and desires. The ambivalent legacy of biogen food and biopharmacology releases the biotech future directly into our bodies. More profoundly than we may suspect, the borders between self and technology have been torn apart. This implies that studying Life in the Wires necessarily involves debates about what happens to human subjectivity—questions of consciousness, perception, imagination, representation—when, under the impact of digital communication, human identity is seemingly shattered and fragmented. It also implies that the question of technology is no longer limited to the strict realm of the technological, but permeates culture and society as a whole: Net in the Wires, Politics in the Wires, Music in the Wires, Cities in the Wires, Screens in the Wires, Gender in the Wires, Posthumanism in the Wires, Art in the Wires. The fate of globalization provides the overall context for Life in the Wires. Not so long ago, it was hoped that the culture of globalization would usher in a new utopian age of connectivity, using new technologies of electronic communication to create exciting
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